April & Poetry 12

(Read this post after reading CJ Evans' poem entitled "Elegy in Limestone")

If he, stone, and if he

does.  If gods, like light, like if people

towns and cities and nations, like a stone’s throw,

like gods, sound mind and ancient body.

If he does, like if the days and nights

of Earth think Earth, if the spinning

of the Sun and Saturn burn in their Thought, cry

Sun and Saturn; if he does.

Map the subconscious, herkimer and quartz,

the stones not appearing on any map,

if the map wants inward guidance.

If he does.  Word, if it is in

and in mind.  If visible until

Deed.  If mystics lie and light

moves the spine’s hot

Serpent.  If he is light, if it is

okay to dark with.  Stones.  In the

crystal bowl sounds Mount Shasta, and The Word.

If he is the sound of Mount Shasta under Raven’s wings.

If hiding, if hard, if height, if heat, if healing.